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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicWealth

Topic: wealth

Pandemic could erase more global wealth than financial crisis

Marion Halftermeyer -
Volatile markets and the economic fallout from the virus could wipe out as much as $16 trillion of global wealth this year and hinder growth for the next five years.

Here’s what you need to count among India’s 1%, but it won’t make you rich in US, China

Ben Steverman -
The top 1% covers a wide span, from professionals to billionaires with more wealth than many nations. But the yardstick varies greatly with where you live.

Indian elites holding back wealth tied in slums. And here’s what Modi govt can do

Sonali Ranade -
Elites view encroachers as disruptors of property rights system, and oppose regularisation. But that’s what India needs to free up capital held in slums.

Missing capital: India’s trillions-dollar wealth is chained in slums. Time to unlock it

Sonali Ranade -
The slums and shanties represent a huge drain on our wealth for what really requires nothing more than a clear-headed policy towards urban property.

These new Indian billionaires are racing ahead as the old ones are fading away

P. R. Sanjai -
Number of billionaires in India more than doubled to 119 between 2013 & 2018 & the country will lead global growth in ultrahigh net worth individuals.

Between 2014 & 2019 polls, all parliamentarians got richer but BJP MPs especially so

Vinod Kumar -
If JMM’s Champai Soren managed to double his wealth between 2014 and 2019, BJP’s Arjun Munda quadrupled his riches during the same period.

India needs big, wealthy industries, not more reports pitting poor against rich

Kanchan Gupta -
It is fashionable to be derisive of big industries and industrialists but what is overlooked is that they sustain smaller businesses, generate jobs.

Oxfam inequality study: Skewed parameters to assess wealth or disbalanced economic growth?

ThePrint Team -
In its annual report, Oxfam said that India’s wealthiest got wealthier by 39 per cent as opposed to the bottom half of the population...

Inequality reports like Oxfam’s end up hurting India’s poor with their poor methodology

Ila Patnaik -
Oxfam considers it “obscene” that the poor now borrow more, and have seen an increase in their liabilities.

Funerals are becoming the final opportunity to flaunt wealth

Olivia Carville -
Businessmen and billionaires are often aggressively competitive in life, and funerals become one last extravagant display of wealth. 
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Opinion

BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

Bloomberg Opinion -
The impact of all this upheaval is unmooring. We search for the BBC to confirm that Britain still exists and find it missing.

Nuapada byelection may change Odisha’s political landscape. It should not be ignored

BJP’s uniformity push is harmful. Ladakh shows federalism is the core of our democracy

Economy

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

Udit Bubna -
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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